Posts Tagged Show

Springsteen on Broadway Director: Thom Zimny Netflix Bruce Springsteen has been playing the role of Bruce Springsteen for far longer than he was ever actually “Bruce Springsteen”. Now, the same is true of a lot of the famous rock’n’rollers that grew up out of that era and firmly in public. Sir Paul of Macca is […]

Welcome to episode 132 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here I had a conversation with Peter Black. He’s a Wellington-based photographer. I didn’t know him, until we had this conversation. But I knew his work. I’ve known his work for a while and it’s had a profound impact […]

Beer and music – we’re told, so often, they go together. The craft beer fellas have all aligned themselves with music, sponsoring gigs, even naming beers after bands. And anyone with a rock’n’roll story of a gig from 20 or 30 years ago often adds in some yarn about being boozed, sozzled, tipsy…or if they […]

To add to the excitement of what will surely be a great show – Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens playing a cabaret-styled set at Wellington’s San Fran next Thursday, November 10 – it’s just been announced that the opening act is Sam Scott of The Phoenix Foundation and Bunnies on Ponies. Samuel Scott has been […]

Blue Man Group Luxor, Las Vegas; NV Sunday, July 24 I first saw Blue Man Group in Las Vegas four years ago. I didn’t check out the recent New Zealand tour, but I was thinking about heading along. I figured there’d be a few changes, it might be worth seeing. There are several Blue Man […]

Alright, a good game is a quick one – here’s a chance to win tickets to see Strung Out and Pears in Auckland tonight or Wellington tomorrow night. That’s right, the bands play Auckland tonight, Thursday, March 31 at The Kings Arms and Wellington’s San Fran, tomorrow, April 1. Both shows are “full album” gigs […]

Miranda July: Lost Child! The Opera House Wednesday, March 9 When Miranda July was a young kid she wrote a book called Lost Child! She begins her Writers Week festival talk with slide-show images of the cover and reads a few pages from the book – she can’t read it all (“it was a trilogy”). […]

This Friday, March 11, Tami Neilson & Her Hot Rockin’ Band of Rhythm! hits the stage of the San Fran for a show that has every chance of being spectacular. Why? Because, with both Dynamite! and Don’t Be Afraid Tami, and band, have released two kick-ass albums. And there’s been so many shows over the […]

Marc Ribot is a guitar hero – if you love mangled sounds and inventive colours, from squeals and squalls to acoustic improvisation. He can do the Hendrix rock-out thing (in more of a Sonny Sharrock kind of way actually) or play jazz. He can do it all, sideman or out front on his own. He’s […]

Matt Corby The Opera House, Wellington Wednesday, October 30 You could consider Australian guitarist and singer Matt Corby a rising star – except, it’s clear that with this, his first New Zealand tour, word is already out; the lights go black and there are high-pitched screams – when you can make them out it’s usually […]